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New York Times, Saturday, April 20, 2024

Author:
Garrett Chalfin and Andrew Kingsley
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
53-Down : Big whoop?
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88/1/20224/20/20244
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11.635257%
Garrett Chalfin
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234/29/20164/20/20248
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1333355
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131.588753%
Andrew Kingsley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQX} This is puzzle # 8 for Mr. Chalfin. This is puzzle # 23 for Mr. Kingsley. Saturday freshness: 15%
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© 2024, The New York Times4/20/24 ( No. 27,192 )
Across
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Napoleon had a large one : EGO
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Cut close : SHEAR
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Moved, in a way : AWED
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Where you'll find women out to drink? : LESBIANBAR
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First city to reach a population of one million people, in the second century B.C. : ROME
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Platonic outing : FRIENDDATE
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Lament : MOAN
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Get set : HARDEN
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Course addendum : SIDE
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Baby squirrel : KIT
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"___ volat propriis" (Oregon's motto) : ALIS
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Square root of sesenta y cuatro : OCHO
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Disturbs : ROILS
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Jerry Rice's 208, for short : TDS
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Littlest complaint, in an idiom : BOO
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Free : NOFEE
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"Someone better call the fire department, because you just got burned!" : BOOMROASTED
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Sentimental feelings : WARMFUZZIES
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Component of a Cobb salad : CRISPYBACON
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Toby ___, "Twelfth Night" character who says "Thou'rt a scholar; let us therefore eat and drink" : BELCH
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Washed-out : WAN
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___ Santos, fictional setting of Grand Theft Auto V : LOS
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Loud : BRASH
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Fire : ZEAL
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The stuff of legends : LORE
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"Mighty" thing : OAK
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Hound, or part of a hound : TAIL
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Popular video editing software : IMOVIE
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Mythical figure who sacrificed an eye in order to drink from the well of knowledge : ODIN
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Chew the doors, e.g. : SPOONERISM
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Pantry array : TINS
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Green-tinted cocktails : APPLETINIS
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It might put you in an awkward position : YOGA
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"That is ... not good" : YEESH
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Old competitor of the Plymouth Barracuda : GTO
Down
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Topper for a holiday party : ELFHAT
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'70s Ford : GERALD
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Whom King Tut's mummy was made to resemble : OSIRIS
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1, for 90° : SINE
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Lacked pop : HADNOOOMPH
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Wind up : END
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"And sore must be the storm / That could ___ the little Bird / That kept so many warm": Dickinson : ABASH
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4-Down, e.g. : RATIO
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Something to wrestle with : ARM
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Creatures inspired by George Lucas's dog : WOOKIEES
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Like many gift cards, nowadays : EMAILED
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Crash sights : DENTS
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Crash sites? : BEDS
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It appears on 78% of all national flags : RED
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Bank worry : EROSION
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Like well-worn shoes : COMFY
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End of an overplayed pickup line : OFTEN
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National dish of Ukraine : BORSCHT
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Mysterious ancient geoglyphs in the Peruvian desert : NAZCALINES
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Dips, so to speak : BAILS
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Catch : RUB
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Conductor Seiji : OZAWA
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Bringing about : WREAKING
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Box in a cab : CBRADIO
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Very into : LOVING
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Second-guesser's question : ORISIT
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Appear as such : SEEMSO
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Behind : BOOTY
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Full of life : ZIPPY
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Get a running mate? : ELOPE
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Pulitzer-winning playwright Suzan-___ Parks : LORI
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___ courtesy : ASA
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Drug prescribed under the brand name Desoxyn, familiarly : METH
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Operator of the Utah Data Center, for short : NSA
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Big whoop? : OLE

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